The Good News first: As seen in this cartoon by Australian cartoonist Glen Le Lievre, Eaten Fish, the young Iranian cartoonist imprisoned in an Australian detention camp, has been freed and taken to an undisclosed safe city in Northern Europe.I wrote about Eaten Fish in this February posting about press freedom and responsibility.A lot of […]
Against all past tendencies around here, I’m once more highlighting a bland restatement cartoon, this time the other Tom, the Tomorrow one.I still think things have swung so far out of balance that simply restating what people say fails to capture the level of dysfunction, but on this topic, there is an utter cluelessness that, […]
So I got home Sunday night, tired after a 6 hour drive, and flipped on the computer to check email and Facebook, which is probably why today’s Baby Blues made me laff.Yesterday was mostly mop-up and catching up on sleep, but I did have plenty of time to stew over our collective stupidity.All the way […]
I’m kind of stumbling downstairs into the detritus from last night’s party and trying to recollect what happened and put off cleaning up the mess.There’ve been a lot of cartoons about fireworks lately, but I like today’s Frazz best, though I’m applying it to dogs rather than to people.For some reason, this was the Year […]
Scott Stantis continues his dark night of the soul with today’s Prickly City, which lays out our State of Disunion, and Carmen’s comment at the end is less a punchline than a summation.Yes, it’s come to this.Were you waiting for Fort Sumter? Pfft — That’s such a 19th Century way to kick off a Civil […]
A little housekeeping, first. As Marla has been searching for a new assistant manager in Retail, hiring Val has been hanging out there as the obvious move.Today, that gets cleared up in a style that reminds us of the boutique Marla has long dreamed of owning, and that Norm Feuti worked in retail for many […]
Let’s start the conversation with Tom Tomorrow, whose overall analysis of the Trump administration pleases me mostly because it skips recurring, tired gripes to discuss overall strategies.He is noted for his year-end wrap-up specials and this feels like a mini-version. He doesn’t mention the 100 Day mark and it’s not clear he had it at all in mind, […]
Not sure if this is the start of an arc or a one-off, but Pajama Diaries has had an ongoing story that pops up now and then about Ben, who is autistic, and Terri Libenson has been handling it with a nice combination of sympathy, homework and humor.It’s a tough balancing act, because, while you can’t […]
Matt Wuerker posted an unusual query on Facebook the other day, and, as you’ll see at the right, he got 133 comments and, as you’ll see above, he got a pretty good cartoon out of it.I don’t know how many words Eskimos, or Inuits for that matter, have for snow. In New England, we get […]
Tom Tomorrow leads off today with a retrospective look at what Trump might have said during the campaign, if he’d been a little more forthcoming.Two takes on this, the first being what is implied in that final panel: Regardless of what Trump actually said, it should have been the job of political analysts to pull aside […]
I don’t have writer’s block today, but do I have a ridiculously early doctor’s appointment, so I’ll be brief.Fortunately, Boulet is not brief — the above is but a snippet — and following his advice will get you through any lapses in creative energy. Go read the rest and take careful notes. Tom Tomorrow pours on […]
Disclaimer: I didn’t watch the speech.I made an effort to listen to it on the radio but dozed off and on throughout it and the analysis that followed, so about all I really came away with was that, as David Rowe’s cartoon suggests, he stayed on script.And then this morning, as I checked the news, […]
A peek behind the scenes to explain why I love Between Friends.The above is yesterday’s strip, part of an ongoing arc about Maeve’s crush on the barista in her office building. It’s been kind of silly, but that’s within boundaries, because Maeve’s love-life is always inadvisedly directed, sometimes in silly ways, sometimes in disastrous ones. But it did […]
Jack Ohman is one of the first out of the blocks on last night’s debate, and comes as close as anyone is likely to in summing it up: Trump boasted, Clinton watched.I doubt that it had much impact on the convinced, but voters who have been wavering might have been driven one direction or the other.However, […]
Tom Tomorrow holds forth on the new, social-media driven news cycle.Parts of this cartoon are excellent, parts are very much open for criticism.For one thing, I think he needs some new clip art to indicate hipsters, because the folks in that initial panel wouldn’t know Snapchat from Snoop Dogg, and, if they know about something, […]